Load MASS library, as we need to work on Boston dataset.
library(MASS)
#Boston
names(Boston)
## [1] "crim" "zn" "indus" "chas" "nox" "rm" "age"
## [8] "dis" "rad" "tax" "ptratio" "black" "lstat" "medv"
We will create a simple single linear regression model with Boston library’s lstat as predictor and medv as response.
#lm.fit=lm(medv~lstat, data=Boston)
attach(Boston)
lm.fit = lm(medv~lstat)
lm.fit
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ lstat)
##
## Coefficients:
## (Intercept) lstat
## 34.55 -0.95
summary(lm.fit)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ lstat)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -15.168 -3.990 -1.318 2.034 24.500
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 34.55384 0.56263 61.41 <2e-16 ***
## lstat -0.95005 0.03873 -24.53 <2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 6.216 on 504 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.5441, Adjusted R-squared: 0.5432
## F-statistic: 601.6 on 1 and 504 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
anova(lm.fit)
## Analysis of Variance Table
##
## Response: medv
## Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
## lstat 1 23244 23243.9 601.62 < 2.2e-16 ***
## Residuals 504 19472 38.6
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
plot(lstat, medv)
abline(h=mean(medv))
abline(lm.fit, col="blue")
names(lm.fit)
## [1] "coefficients" "residuals" "effects" "rank"
## [5] "fitted.values" "assign" "qr" "df.residual"
## [9] "xlevels" "call" "terms" "model"
confint(lm.fit)
## 2.5 % 97.5 %
## (Intercept) 33.448457 35.6592247
## lstat -1.026148 -0.8739505
predict(lm.fit ,data.frame(lstat=c(5 ,10 ,15)),interval ="confidence")
## fit lwr upr
## 1 29.80359 29.00741 30.59978
## 2 25.05335 24.47413 25.63256
## 3 20.30310 19.73159 20.87461
Residual plots:
plot(lm.fit)
Now that we have gone through a single linear regression model (with one predictor), we will create a multiple linear regression model with all thirteen predictors:
mul.lm.fit = lm(medv ~ ., data = Boston)
summary(mul.lm.fit)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ ., data = Boston)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -15.595 -2.730 -0.518 1.777 26.199
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 3.646e+01 5.103e+00 7.144 3.28e-12 ***
## crim -1.080e-01 3.286e-02 -3.287 0.001087 **
## zn 4.642e-02 1.373e-02 3.382 0.000778 ***
## indus 2.056e-02 6.150e-02 0.334 0.738288
## chas 2.687e+00 8.616e-01 3.118 0.001925 **
## nox -1.777e+01 3.820e+00 -4.651 4.25e-06 ***
## rm 3.810e+00 4.179e-01 9.116 < 2e-16 ***
## age 6.922e-04 1.321e-02 0.052 0.958229
## dis -1.476e+00 1.995e-01 -7.398 6.01e-13 ***
## rad 3.060e-01 6.635e-02 4.613 5.07e-06 ***
## tax -1.233e-02 3.760e-03 -3.280 0.001112 **
## ptratio -9.527e-01 1.308e-01 -7.283 1.31e-12 ***
## black 9.312e-03 2.686e-03 3.467 0.000573 ***
## lstat -5.248e-01 5.072e-02 -10.347 < 2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 4.745 on 492 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.7406, Adjusted R-squared: 0.7338
## F-statistic: 108.1 on 13 and 492 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
plot(mul.lm.fit)
Multiple linear regression without a predictor, for example: age.
mul.lm.fit.without.age = update(mul.lm.fit, ~ . -age)
summary(mul.lm.fit.without.age)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ crim + zn + indus + chas + nox + rm + dis +
## rad + tax + ptratio + black + lstat, data = Boston)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -15.6054 -2.7313 -0.5188 1.7601 26.2243
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 36.436927 5.080119 7.172 2.72e-12 ***
## crim -0.108006 0.032832 -3.290 0.001075 **
## zn 0.046334 0.013613 3.404 0.000719 ***
## indus 0.020562 0.061433 0.335 0.737989
## chas 2.689026 0.859598 3.128 0.001863 **
## nox -17.713540 3.679308 -4.814 1.97e-06 ***
## rm 3.814394 0.408480 9.338 < 2e-16 ***
## dis -1.478612 0.190611 -7.757 5.03e-14 ***
## rad 0.305786 0.066089 4.627 4.75e-06 ***
## tax -0.012329 0.003755 -3.283 0.001099 **
## ptratio -0.952211 0.130294 -7.308 1.10e-12 ***
## black 0.009321 0.002678 3.481 0.000544 ***
## lstat -0.523852 0.047625 -10.999 < 2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 4.74 on 493 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.7406, Adjusted R-squared: 0.7343
## F-statistic: 117.3 on 12 and 493 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
Multiple linear regression with interaction terms
mul.lm.fit.interact.age = lm(medv ~ lstat * age, data = Boston)
summary(mul.lm.fit.interact.age)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ lstat * age, data = Boston)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -15.806 -4.045 -1.333 2.085 27.552
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 36.0885359 1.4698355 24.553 < 2e-16 ***
## lstat -1.3921168 0.1674555 -8.313 8.78e-16 ***
## age -0.0007209 0.0198792 -0.036 0.9711
## lstat:age 0.0041560 0.0018518 2.244 0.0252 *
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 6.149 on 502 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.5557, Adjusted R-squared: 0.5531
## F-statistic: 209.3 on 3 and 502 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
Non-linear Transformations of the Predictors with single predictor:
lm.fit.non.linear = lm(medv ~ lstat + I(lstat^2), data = Boston)
summary(lm.fit.non.linear)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ lstat + I(lstat^2), data = Boston)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -15.2834 -3.8313 -0.5295 2.3095 25.4148
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 42.862007 0.872084 49.15 <2e-16 ***
## lstat -2.332821 0.123803 -18.84 <2e-16 ***
## I(lstat^2) 0.043547 0.003745 11.63 <2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 5.524 on 503 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.6407, Adjusted R-squared: 0.6393
## F-statistic: 448.5 on 2 and 503 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
plot(lm.fit.non.linear)
# attach(Boston)
# plot(lstat, medv)
# abline(lm.fit.non.linear, col="blue")
anova(lm.fit, lm.fit.non.linear)
## Analysis of Variance Table
##
## Model 1: medv ~ lstat
## Model 2: medv ~ lstat + I(lstat^2)
## Res.Df RSS Df Sum of Sq F Pr(>F)
## 1 504 19472
## 2 503 15347 1 4125.1 135.2 < 2.2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
Polynomial fit for linear regression:
lm.fit.non.linear.degree5 = lm(medv ~ poly(lstat, 5), data = Boston)
summary(lm.fit.non.linear.degree5)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ poly(lstat, 5), data = Boston)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -13.5433 -3.1039 -0.7052 2.0844 27.1153
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 22.5328 0.2318 97.197 < 2e-16 ***
## poly(lstat, 5)1 -152.4595 5.2148 -29.236 < 2e-16 ***
## poly(lstat, 5)2 64.2272 5.2148 12.316 < 2e-16 ***
## poly(lstat, 5)3 -27.0511 5.2148 -5.187 3.10e-07 ***
## poly(lstat, 5)4 25.4517 5.2148 4.881 1.42e-06 ***
## poly(lstat, 5)5 -19.2524 5.2148 -3.692 0.000247 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 5.215 on 500 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.6817, Adjusted R-squared: 0.6785
## F-statistic: 214.2 on 5 and 500 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
plot(lm.fit.non.linear.degree5)
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